Yet another impersonation scam came to the fore in three cities of Madhya Pradesh on Sunday. This time, 17 fake candidates appearing in the police constable recruitment examination were arrested by the Special Task Force (STF).
The Police Constable Recruitment Examination was conducted by Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB). The fake candidates have been arrested from Bhopal, Datia and Gwalior. Additional DG Sudhir Sahi said that 17 fake examinees were appearing in Police Constable Recruitment Examination conducted by Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board on Sunday.
During routine checking, they were held while writing the examination for some actual applicants. later, the STF arrested them. Those arrested included 10 from Bhopal, 6 from Datia and one from Gwalior, added Sahi. The kingpin of the racket Pradeep Tyagi, who hails from Morena district has been arrested from Datia district.
Sahi told that 11 of the 17 accused were writing paper in the place of genuine applicants, while 6 of them were those who were helping them. The accused who were arrested from Bhopal are Neeraj Mishra, Anil Yadav, Amit Chaudhary, Phool Kumar, Ajay Singh and Srinivas Kumar